Switch AI Coding Assistants Without Losing Context

I was deep in a refactor in Claude Code when it hit rate limits. Twenty minutes of context — the task list, the decisions I'd made about the approach, the governance state of the API changes — all trapped in a conversation I couldn't continue. I opened Codex to keep working. It had no idea what I was doing. I spent 15 minutes re-explaining the task, the constraints, the decisions already made. Then Codex hit its own limit, and I opened Gemini CLI. Same story. Start over. Re-explain. Lose momentum. This happens every day to anyone using more than one AI coding assistant. The problem is architectural Each AI assistant stores context in its own conversation window. When that window ends — rate limit, crash, session timeout, or just opening a different tool — the context is gone. There's no shared layer. It's like having three developers on a team with no issue tracker, no shared docs, and no standups. Each one knows what they worked on. None of them know what the others did. Shared state